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FMPP: Projects Awarded Grants in Fiscal Year 2008
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- South Dakota: $10,000 to Aberdeen Downtown Association, Aberdeen, S.D., to solicit new vendors for the Downtown Aberdeen Farmers Market through a multi-media advertising campaign.
- Tennessee: $55,404 to Rural Resources, Inc., Greenville, Tenn., to improve and promote the Mobile Farmers Market through tastings, cooking demonstrations, and cooking classes using local food; and to enhance market sales through a novel online ordering approach, which includes direct delivery of pre-ordered food baskets to churches and hospitals.
- Texas: $64,050 to The University of Texas–Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, to recruit and train women, minority, immigrant, transitioning, and young farmers to grow and direct-market produce, to develop direct-market outlets, and to share effective strategies and best practices within a 26-county region of South Texas.
- Texas: $39,870 to the Texas Longhorn Cooperative, Rice, Texas, to improve and promote the sale of grass-fed, lean, longhorn beef at farmers markets through an organized marketing campaign and a more efficient transportation system.
- Texas: $3,050 to Keep Brownwood Beautiful, Brownwood, Texas, a grassroots non-profit organization, to increase participation in the Brownwood Area Farmers Market by implementing an advertising campaign with billboards, posters, brochures, and guides.
- Utah: $43,340 to the Great Salt Lake Resource, Conservation, and Development Council, Salt Lake City, Utah, to implement a promotional project that targets small producers allowing them to sell directly to the public via a CSA, and procure season-extending production equipment for use by participating farmers.
- Vermont: $8,000 to the Town and Village of Waterbury, Vt., to make the Waterbury Farmers Market more accessible to low-income families, senior citizens, and refugees by installing an EBT system and promoting the market with several events.
- Virginia: $68,906 to Appalachian Sustainable Development, Abingdon, Va., to increase participation in 12 regional farmers markets by training and mentoring new farmers, purchasing EBT equipment to attract poverty-level and underserved consumers, and implementing promotional events for these markets.
- Virginia: $10,645 to the Agricultural Development Office, County of Halifax, Va., to provide bi-weekly consumer-based educational program at the Downtown South Boston Farmers Market for new and existing vendors and customers; purchase equipment that will enhance market operations; and improve market visibility through promotional activities and an advertising campaign involving churches, local social services offices, and the health department.
- Virginia: $48,823 to Jefferson Area Board for Aging, Inc., Charlottesville, Va., to develop a food system to provide nutritious, local food for area seniors, which will include contracts with local farmers, menu development, equipment to prepare the meals, and a transportation system to deliver the cooked meals.
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